By: Darby H.B. No. 3918
A BILL TO BE ENTITLED
AN ACT
relating to testing liquefied petroleum gas systems in certain
school facilities.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF TEXAS:
SECTION 1. Sections 113.352(a), (b), and (c), Natural
Resources Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) Each school district shall perform leakage [pressure]
tests for leakage on the LP-gas piping system in each school
district facility at least biennially. The tests must be performed
before the beginning of the school year.
(b) The school district may perform the leakage [pressure]
tests on a two-year cycle under which the tests are performed for
the LP-gas piping systems of approximately one-half of the
facilities each year.
(c) If a school district operates one or more school
district facilities on a year-round calendar, the leakage
[pressure] test in each of those facilities must be conducted and
reported not later than July 1 of the year in which the test is
performed.
SECTION 2. Sections 113.353(a) and (b), Natural Resources
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) The school district shall perform the leakage
[pressure] test to determine whether the LP-gas piping system holds
at least the amount of pressure specified by the commission
[National Fire Protection Association 54, National Fuel Gas Code].
(b) The leakage [pressure] test must be conducted in
accordance with commission rules [National Fire Protection
Association 54].
SECTION 3. Sections 113.354(a) and (c), Natural Resources
Code, are amended to read as follows:
(a) A school district shall retain documentation [provide
written notice to the commission] specifying the date and the
result of each leakage [pressure] test or other inspection of each
[the] LP-gas piping system until at least the fifth anniversary of
the date the test or other inspection was performed.
(c) The commission may review a school district's
documentation of each leakage test or other inspection conducted by
the school district [shall maintain a copy of the notice provided
under Subsection (a) until at least the first anniversary of the
date the commission received the notice].
SECTION 4. The change in law made by this Act applies
beginning with the 2009-2010 school year.
SECTION 5. This Act takes effect immediately if it receives
a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected to each house, as
provided by Section 39, Article III, Texas Constitution. If this
Act does not receive the vote necessary for immediate effect, this
Act takes effect September 1, 2009.